Congresswoman Speier Introduces Two Gun Safe Bills

[Oscar Knight]

..."Congresswoman Jackie Speier Introduces Two Gun Safety Bills, Including the Child Handgun Safety Act"

June 27, 2013

Today, Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) introduced two bills :

In particular, the Child Handgun Safety Act would require that all handguns manufactured, sold in, or imported into the United States to incorporate technology that precludes the average 5-year-old child from operating a handgun when it is ready to fire. The Act would also require any handgun sold, offered for sale, traded, transferred, shipped, leased, or distributed in the U.S. two years after enactment to be child-resistant or retrofitted with a child-resistant mechanism. The Child Handgun Safety Act is supported by the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center.

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[Oscar Knight]

The S&W Clinton Internal Trigger Locks

Agreement of 2000

In March 2000 Smith & Wesson was the only major gun manufacturer to sign an agreement with the Clinton Administration. The company agreed to numerous safety and design standards as well as limits on the sale and distribution of its products. Gun clubs and gun rights groups responded to this agreement by initiating large-scale boycotts of Smith & Wesson by refusing to buy their new products and flooding the firearms market with used S&W guns. After a 40% sales slide, the sales impact from the boycotts led Smith & Wesson to suspend manufacturing at two plants. The success of the boycott led to a Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation's being initiated under the Clinton administration, targeting gun dealers and gun rights groups, which was subsequently dropped in 2003. This agreement signed by Tomkins PLC ended with the sale of Smith & Wesson to the Saf-T-Hammer Corporation. The new company (Smith and Wesson Holding Corporation), which publicly renounced the agreement, was received positively by the firearms community.

Acquisition by Saf-T-Hammer On 11 May 2001, Saf-T-Hammer Corporation acquired Smith & Wesson Corp. from Tomkins PLC for US$15 million, a fraction of the US$112 million originally paid by Tomkins. Saf-T-Hammer assumed US$30 million in debt, bringing the total purchase price to US$45 million. Saf-T-Hammer, a manufacturer of gun locks and other firearms safety products, purchased the company with the intention of incorporating its line of security products into all Smith & Wesson firearms in compliance with the 2000 agreement.

The acquisition of Smith & Wesson was chiefly brokered by Saf-T-Hammer President Bob Scott, who had left Smith & Wesson in 1999 because of a disagreement with Tomkins’ policies. After the purchase, Scott became the president of Smith & Wesson to guide the 157-year-old company back to its former standing in the market.

On 15 February 2002, the name of the newly formed entity was changed to Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson

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Now two more efforts to make it impossible to manufacture nor sell a firearm in the United States. Useful idiots such as these always compare the acquisition or use of a firearm to that of a motor vehicle. Let's see them work out how to make the same mechanical impediments to a auto as that which they propose to a firearm and still expect to use either. This worthless legislation wont even generate a weak sizzle when and if it hits the house.

[Oscar Knight]

Jul 11, 2013 7:51:14 GMT -6 @19and41 said:

This worthless legislation wont even generate a weak sizzle when and if it hits the house.

......What I look out for is the rats that bites into this cheese. At this point, the co-sponsors.

....Speier is another instrument of the gun grabbers, in D.C., that caters to the lopsided opinions given to her by the Brady Campaign.

......From the National Shooting Sport Foundation (N.S.S.F.)

Lawrence Keane – senior vice president and general counsel of the Newtown, Conn.-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun-industry trade group – said he doesn’t doubt Speier’s intentions are good, but “there is no reason or need for the legislation she has introduced.”

“Every firearm sold in the United States today … is required to be provided with a locking device,” Keane said. “It’s the responsibility of the gun owner to secure the firearm and keep it away from unauthorized users, particularly and obviously children.”

Not only do U.S. gunmakers include a lock with every firearm they ship, but retailers also are required by law to have locks available for sale as well. And the NSSF’s Project ChildSafe, launched in 2003 and partnered with law enforcement, has distributed more than 36 million free firearm safety education kits – each including a cable-style lock.

“We’re pleased to report that while the incidents she cites in the press release are devastating and horrible, the truth is that the number of firearms fatalities involving accidents are at their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1903,” Keane said, adding that statistically, children are far more likely to die in cars, bathtubs or swimming pools than by handgun.

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